Welcome to gaming companies. I experienced this with pen-and-paper games four decades ago.Funny how my experience with Frontier has tainted my hopefulness when it comes to other developers. I want to believe Microsoft / Asobo will put in the time and effort to improve this game and fix all the bugs and finish cooking the half-baked stuff, but ED has all but snuffed out the once shining light of hope that used to burn bright in my heart
Please Microsoft / Asobo, don't be another Frontier!
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Thanks. I'll wait.
Jenner
I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
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This sounds really cool! I requested an account but it looks like they have so many new requests that it could take days to get one. Lol. Oh well. In the meantime I'm doing the whole 'pilot for hire thing in my head.
This sounds really cool! I requested an account but it looks like they have so many new requests that it could take days to get one. Lol. Oh well. In the meantime I'm doing the whole 'pilot for hire thing in my head.
The accounts are made manually. I requested one Friday, and Saturday afternoon there were over 6000 new requests. It was a five day waiting time when I signed up, but I can't imagine anything less than weeks at the very least.
Jenner
I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
I have to wonder why they don't automate it.
This has been driving me crazy and wondering if it's just me or if it will affect anyone else. So by default drone camera is insert on the keyboard, I also bound toggle drone camera to right+A on the controller i'm using, and it will toggle drone camera on but it will not toggle it off. Insert on the keyboard is working fine toggling it either way. If someone is messing around and can check that, I would be curious to know if you have the same problem.
Also, I just realized tonight as I was flying through some of the darkest most foreboding clouds I've seen yet, has anyone witnessed lightning or thunder? I have not encountered this yet and I've been doing my share of cloud flying.
I've been playing with all the damage / fail conditions on so I can get use flying realistically as possible, but it really sucks when you don't pay attention for a second and you pick up some speed and the flight just ends!!! I had a nice flight from Boston to the Statue of Liberty to Philadelphia and right before the statue, bink, over lol. Its frustrating but I am determined to keep it on to train myself. After watching a few videos back of myself flying I instantly grimaced at the unrealistic silly methods I was employing, I am determined to smooth it out. It would at least be satisfying on some kind of primal level if you saw the plane rip in half or the wings go shooting off. Maybe we will get a damage / crash dlc like Total War gets blood dlc for 2.99 eventually...
After two failed attempts finally completed my first proper planned flight. Boston > Statue of Liberty > Philadelphia. The majority of my flight was through thick clouds that seemed to go from 5k-20k feet where I broke the surface at my cruise height onto a glorious cloud carpet under the moon light. I began a slow descent over the ocean off long island into blackness again and was greeted by the occasional opening with New York City light beaming up through the cloud wells and illuminating them. Utterly beautiful that lighting. After doing a 4k loop around lady liberty (Foggy as heck) back to 10k to Philly and more cloud wells oozing light. As I looked over the moonlit carpet under the plane there were holes in it for miles with man's light beaming up and lightning the edges, it almost looked like it was daytime underneath the clouds while moonlit night on top. Wish I took some screens but was engrossed at completing my goal.
My landing was harrowing and I cant believe the plane didn't break. Kept bouncing off the runway for what felt like four or five times before it finally settled. Jumped up to the keyboard and even managed to properly taxi, refuel and shutdown the engines. Big grin.
Full damage / stress enabled along with zero pilot assists. I did use visible navigation markers, probably going to be awhile before I can leave those behind. My first survived landing since the tutorial (Ive failed a dozen practice ones). Really bonded with the Texitron Cessena Citation CJ4. Up until this point has just been free flys. Can't wait to continue down the coast. Tampa, Florida is my next goal.
If I successfully complete a flight I will start my next journey from where I last made it to. I think itll make the game more fun for me with some self imposed goals to up the immersion factor a bit and help give me more structured purpose. The free flying sight seeing with no goal is getting old.
Also, I just realized tonight as I was flying through some of the darkest most foreboding clouds I've seen yet, has anyone witnessed lightning or thunder? I have not encountered this yet and I've been doing my share of cloud flying.
I've been playing with all the damage / fail conditions on so I can get use flying realistically as possible, but it really sucks when you don't pay attention for a second and you pick up some speed and the flight just ends!!! I had a nice flight from Boston to the Statue of Liberty to Philadelphia and right before the statue, bink, over lol. Its frustrating but I am determined to keep it on to train myself. After watching a few videos back of myself flying I instantly grimaced at the unrealistic silly methods I was employing, I am determined to smooth it out. It would at least be satisfying on some kind of primal level if you saw the plane rip in half or the wings go shooting off. Maybe we will get a damage / crash dlc like Total War gets blood dlc for 2.99 eventually...
After two failed attempts finally completed my first proper planned flight. Boston > Statue of Liberty > Philadelphia. The majority of my flight was through thick clouds that seemed to go from 5k-20k feet where I broke the surface at my cruise height onto a glorious cloud carpet under the moon light. I began a slow descent over the ocean off long island into blackness again and was greeted by the occasional opening with New York City light beaming up through the cloud wells and illuminating them. Utterly beautiful that lighting. After doing a 4k loop around lady liberty (Foggy as heck) back to 10k to Philly and more cloud wells oozing light. As I looked over the moonlit carpet under the plane there were holes in it for miles with man's light beaming up and lightning the edges, it almost looked like it was daytime underneath the clouds while moonlit night on top. Wish I took some screens but was engrossed at completing my goal.
My landing was harrowing and I cant believe the plane didn't break. Kept bouncing off the runway for what felt like four or five times before it finally settled. Jumped up to the keyboard and even managed to properly taxi, refuel and shutdown the engines. Big grin.
Full damage / stress enabled along with zero pilot assists. I did use visible navigation markers, probably going to be awhile before I can leave those behind. My first survived landing since the tutorial (Ive failed a dozen practice ones). Really bonded with the Texitron Cessena Citation CJ4. Up until this point has just been free flys. Can't wait to continue down the coast. Tampa, Florida is my next goal.
If I successfully complete a flight I will start my next journey from where I last made it to. I think itll make the game more fun for me with some self imposed goals to up the immersion factor a bit and help give me more structured purpose. The free flying sight seeing with no goal is getting old.
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Have you tried the bush trip challenges yet? They seem to have plenty of structure & each one lasts around 8-10 hours in total, split into 15-20 shorter hops. I think that is going to be my next thing.
When I can fly properly (I still suck), my eventual goal is to plan a circumnavigation of the planet... only taking off from where I landed last time. I may cheat slightly by starting the US leg at Long Island or something, but that depends on how adept I get at flying a 787 (currently you don't want to fly Juniper Airlines unless you want to die) in the meantime. I did a full galaxy circumnavigation in Elite a few years ago, and although it took me about 6 months to do, I kinda enjoyed it for the most part. A global circumnavigation is to my mind the equivalent in MFS... and it'll probably take me at least as long.
New to flight sims, so with the help of this thread and Youtube I'd done quite a bit of digging around prior to release to see what was possible, and came across FSEconomy. I signed up for an account there and then for precisely this reason.
/smug modeI wonder if they'll just save time & come up with an automated system to create all these accounts. Probably take at least as long to do that as it would to manually create them, and of course the requests will still be coming thick and fast.
Yep, but only while playing with weather presets from the drone camera. Mildly terryfing even from the ground, I imagine it would only get better flying through it.
Still beyond my current abilities probably, the game is still usually in the survival horror stage for me lol. No consistency yet with the basics, sometimes it works out for me, but usually it doesn't! Still working on smooth ascents and descents and not ing through all my fuel. Sometimes I cant get level flight going on and its constant climbs and falls and then I realize all my fuel is gone. Still slowly working through what I need to have bound to the controller, I have been making slow but steady progress.
I'm having an odd issue right now.
I've purchased and installed the London City Pack, yet it never loads and I always get the default London Scenery? Anyone else come across this issue?
Edit: Now I'm even more annoyed. I've completely re-installed the game and I still don't get the new scenery!!! Free Airports I have downloaded from Orbx and Aerosoft work just fine, as well as some custom liveries for aircraft that I have downloaded.
I've purchased and installed the London City Pack, yet it never loads and I always get the default London Scenery? Anyone else come across this issue?
Edit: Now I'm even more annoyed. I've completely re-installed the game and I still don't get the new scenery!!! Free Airports I have downloaded from Orbx and Aerosoft work just fine, as well as some custom liveries for aircraft that I have downloaded.
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Elevator trim is your best friend there. I discovered the default control scheme for the Hotas X/4 has it conveniently mapped to the rocker axis on the back of the throttle, and it's absolutely required to get a mostly level flight without having to constantly fight with the pitch axis...once you find the correct trim to keep the plane level for the most part, you'll only need to give it slight corrections due to turbulence or change of thrust, and will be able to focus more on managing the rest of the flight.
This is what almost threw me off of DCS free version. Being used to FBW fighter jets where you hardly trim (and being a complete noob), I hated how I needed to fight the free Su-25 all the time, until I discovered trimming
Mind you I had a solid several years gap in playing flight sims, the last one was probably Tornado on the Amiga ;-))). Learning to trim is essential.Btw. another thing people do struggle with is the fuel mixture, which is important to get the most performance out of the aircraft, I'd suggest looking it up next
Btw. another thing people do struggle with is the fuel mixture, which is important to get the most performance out of the aircraft, I'd suggest looking it up next
I'd suggest setting that on "auto", something you can't do with trim.
Oh, absolutely the same here - this is a long term aim. Don't imagine I'd even start until I've got at least 200 hours of flying time under my belt. I'm still figuring out the controls and learning how to use flaps and trim properly. Not even tried the autopilot options, but I see Squirrel did a tutorial video on it so I'll get to that.
But I also get the difficulty in maintaining interest with aimless flying. That said, there's a lot of the world to see - and most of it you may even be unaware of. This site has some ideas.
I'd suggest setting that on "auto", something you can't do with trim.
Actually, you can engage the autopilot on alt hold and that will trim out the aircraft for you.
As long as you check that the trim wheel is set to the TO position before you do take-off then your trim should not be too hard to handle manually.
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Thanks for posting this, it was very useful indeed and despite owning FSX for years, only last night I managed to run through my first IFR/ILS flight, with flying colours I might add. Another area I previously considered a black box (hur hur) de-mystified!
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I've been thinking to embark on a journey crossing an entire continent, say LA to NYC, without setting up checkpoints along the way, just flying VFR. Can I save my position (if I land at an airport, or even on a random field) mid way or is this currently not possible? I used to do this in FSX but somehow can't see the option to save my current flight unless I'm overlooking something.
I don't think you can save your position. That said, if you're not setting up a full flight plan in advance, you could just do it manually, so starting at LA and flying to Dallas (or whatever), then next time you log in going from Dallas to wherever and so on across to NY.
Since I'm still playing around in Cessnas to get the hang of flying, I did that from San Francisco down to LA, via Monterey, Paso Robles and Santa Barbara, each of which is around an hour, and simply picked up from where I left off. Might at some point do a cross continent flight in the same manner, but would be better probably in the Citation.
Since it's an online and potentially real time game, I understand why there's no option to speed up time. That said, it could be a bit of a weak point for any but the most hardened realists. Certainly for me, I'm unlikely to do any really long flights - doing them in real life back when you could drink your way across the Atlantic as a passenger was bad enough, but can't really see the point of watching my plane autopilot itself for six hours...
But having all sorts of fun with the small planes, and I have been surprised at how reasonably I'm able to land, something that very much eluded me in previous versions of the sim. I'm rarely right on the center line of the runway, but even so I've had quite a few really smooth and gentle touchdowns thanks to watching Squirrel's excellent guides.
Edit:- Well, apparently I'm wrong, there is a way to either accelerate time, or possibly skip phases of the flight... No idea how to do it, but will definitely be investigating.
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